Storage & NAS
Explore NAS, SAN, and object storage solutions for enterprise data management.
12 results in Storage & NAS
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How to choose storage & nas tools
Storage tools persist files, blocks, objects or backups and expose the capacity, durability and recovery controls required by applications and infrastructure.
Who uses these tools
- Storage and infrastructure engineers
- Backup and recovery owners
- Application teams planning stateful workloads
Capabilities to compare
- Block, file or object access
- Replication, snapshots and lifecycle policies
- Capacity, performance and integrity monitoring
Operating considerations
- Latency, throughput and failure domains
- Encryption, immutability and key ownership
- Restore time, egress and long-term capacity cost
Selection checklist
- Benchmark the real I/O pattern rather than sequential headline throughput.
- Simulate disk, node and site failures and record recovery behavior.
- Restore representative data and verify application consistency, not only file presence.
What belongs in this category: A product belongs here when storing, protecting, moving or presenting durable data is a primary function.
Storage & NAS on iThub in figures
iThub lists 12 tools in Storage & NAS. 12 of 12 are open source, 12 of 12 can be self-hosted, 12 of 12 have a free, freemium or open-source pricing model and 9 of 12 offer an API.
- Tools listed
- 12
- Open source
- 12
- Self-hostable
- 12
- Free to start
- 12
- With an API
- 9
- Web app
- 9
- Desktop app
- 9
Typical use cases
- Persistent application volumes
- Object archives and data lakes
- Backup repositories and immutable recovery copies
Trade-offs to model
- Replication improves availability but does not replace backup.
- Compression and erasure coding reduce capacity cost at a compute or recovery penalty.
- Managed storage reduces operations while increasing service and egress dependence.
Common mistakes
- Sizing only usable capacity and ignoring snapshots or rebuild headroom
- Assuming a successful backup job proves recoverability
- Skipping ransomware and credential-compromise scenarios
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